Tag: 4Ph
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Giant Swallowtails (Papilio cresphontes)
For the last couple of summers, Nancy has been working hard to ‘branch out’ with a larger selection of (native) butterfly host and nectar plants around the yard to bring a greater variety of butterflies to the neighborhood. It is starting to pay off. Besides our Monarchs, we’ve seen more Zebra Heliconiansinfo (our state butterfly,…
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Cropping Considerations
All Rectangles Are Not The Same (or even Similar) Our friend, Ibis Hillencamp (whom you may remember for the advice she gave on our FAQ page about becoming a better photographerlink) thought people might need an explanation of a photograph’s aspect ratio and why you need to consider it when enlarging or cropping your images.…
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Minor Milestone Yields Thoughts On Cataloging
I’ve been using Adobe Photoshop since before we started this endeavor but didn’t buy Lightroom 3 until December 2010. I purchased Lightroom to catalog and keep track of Nancy’s growing collection of photographs. I still do virtually all of our photo editing in Photoshop. At the time, Nancy already had about 15 thousand digital images.…
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Tell It To The Judge: In Defense Of Photographers & Canvas
To be transparent, I must say I’ve developed some theories about the biases of art critics and the judges of art festivals, based mostly on their selections of art to be awarded prizes at these festivals (and maybe my own biases). I’ve noticed certain patterns that I was hesitant to discuss here until I had…
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Nancy Proudly Places 1st In Photography At Pembroke Pines
At Artfest In The Pines last weekend, Nancy received 1st Place In Photography. There were four other photographers. As you may recall, last year she was the third best photographer of threeblog. Needless to say, we were thrilled to receive this award. I don’t know if this award was because of or despite her comments…